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Jafaican; Jafaikan
noun
a hybrid urban dialect with elements of London, Cockney and Jamaican English UK: ENGLAND
A blending of Jamaican and fake that accurately reflects its cultural etymology. Linguist Michael Quinion further suggests a blending of Jamaican and African may be found in the word’s construction.- “Jafaican” is wiping out inner-city English accents — Daily Mail, 12 April 2006
- Learn Jafaikan in two minutes — The Guardian, 12 April 2006
- This hybrid, known in slang terms as “Jafaican”, is a mixture of cockney, Bangladeshi and West Indian. — Evening Standard, 1 July 2010
- A London arts centre is compiling an archive of poetry and phrases in the city’s historic Cockney dialect as a study shows the accent is being driven out of the capital by the multicultural “Jafaican”. — Deborah Cicurel, Reuters, 6 July 2010
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